[DATA ACCESS] What permissions are needed to use YAMM?

If your organization enforced strict security rules to protect your data or your customers’ data, you want to ensure that you are compliant with the level of expectations from your client/company when using YAMM. This article explains what permissions are needed, and why they are asked by YAMM during installation.

Which authorization scopes are needed for YAMM?

When you install YAMM, you are asked to accept many authorizations:

info By reviewing the permissions and clicking on ‘Allow’, you signify your acceptance of the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy of Yet Another Mail Merge.

This scope is required only to retrieve personalized attachments uploaded in your Drive folder, and include them in your mail merges.

View and manage your spreadsheets in Google Drive

Like the scope ‘Send email as you’, as many essential functions are done from within your Google Sheets (writing in your spreadsheet, adding filters to segment your recipient list etc.), YAMM needs a total access to your spreadsheets.

This scope is required to send/retrieve information from Firebase, a real-time database from Google, which is used to create user profiles, with basic information on their YAMM usage. YAMM also needs this permission to connect to Google Analytics. Even if this authorization is described as an ‘external service’, it still stays within Google environment.

not_interested If you deny the authorizations, you will not be able to use YAMM.

Why does YAMM need those permissions?

Yet Another Mail Merge, as an add-on for Google Sheets, is well integrated within G Suite apps like Google Sheets, Gmail, Google Contacts and Google Drive.

It requires access to the Google environment to provide its services seamlessly across the G Suite apps.

So YAMM only requests the above permissions which are absolutely necessary for its functionality.

Review of permissions

How safe is your data?

We commit ourselves to use these permissions only to be able to offer you the service that you have signed up for.

lock Your data is 100% safe.

YAMM requires full access to your Drive folders and Gmail inbox, only to allow actions to be performed on your behalf. In no case the textual content of your spreadsheets and emails are stored or will be used for any other purposes or shared with any third-party services.

YAMM does NOT have access to your Google account or your password at any time.

We will use the access only for the specified purpose and for the required duration of investigation

We won’t make a copy of your spreadsheet data, unless we want to show you an example, after which we will permanently delete the copy

We do not change the sharing settings or share the file to anybody else

We prompt you to stop sharing the files/folders with us, once our investigation is over

not_interested Your grant of permissions during installation of YAMM, is limited to the functionality of the service.YAMM neither propagates these permissions nor allows access to your files/folders to the YAMM Support team automatically.